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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;beef1020, post: 2524963, member: 24544&quot;]Yes, get a safe deposit box and keep your collection there.&nbsp; It is by far the safest place to store a valuable collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you don&#039;t choose that option, then I would encourage you to think through your security from a much higher level than what safe to get.&nbsp; Security starts with restricting knowledge of your collection to as few people as need to know.&nbsp; My wife knows I collect, and my parents know, and that is all.&nbsp; I do not tell friends, co-workers, other relatives, etc.&nbsp; I have a PO box that all coin related mail comes to so that my post office worker does not know.&nbsp; Likewise, people at the auction houses, dealers I purchase coins through do not know my home address.&nbsp; The first order of securing a collection is to keep it as compartmentalized from the rest of your life as possible.&nbsp; People won&#039;t steal what they don&#039;t know about, and the harder you make it for people to target you, the safer you will be.</p><p><br /></p><p>In terms of safes, I would also encourage you to not store guns in the same safe as you store coins.&nbsp; I would be concerned that the oil and residual gun powder would create a hazardous environment for long term storage.&nbsp; From there, get a safe you can secure into the foundation and hide, either put behind a false wall, or cover in some inconspicuous way.&nbsp; Last point, leave some non-valuable coins out in an office, like those cheap Whitman folders, so that if someone does come looking for a collection they will grab that thinking they got everything.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am truly sorry to hear about your lose.&nbsp; I am glad to hear it is making you think hard about security, as we all should.&nbsp; My take away from your story was to think again about the importance of keeping the collection a secret.&nbsp; It sounds like you were a target, which means someone found out you had something valuable.&nbsp; If you can eliminate, or at least cut down, on other people&#039;s ability to target you, then you become much safer.&nbsp; And please consider a safe deposit box.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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